Posthuman museum practices

In a more-than human world, museums as custodians of cultural memory and as trusted information sources are ideally placed to concretely re-work human subject positions and frame and promote posthuman theories and practices of life (Cameron 2015) through curatorial practice. Natural history and history museums for example frame specific subject positions and relations between humans, human others, non-humans and technology through exhibition and collections work that enact particular ways of conceptualizing and acting in the world. While these patterns and practices are reconstituted over time as different ontologies mix and merge, object concepts, modes of collecting, ordering and exhibiting are principally understood in terms of human subject/object relations (with the exception of Indigenous collections as a consequence of Indigenous curatorial agency).